Comments on: Management Tactic #26: The Carrot Effect http://jameystegmaier.com/2009/05/the-carrot-effect/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: jameystegmaier http://jameystegmaier.com/2009/05/the-carrot-effect/#comment-906 jameystegmaier Mon, 18 May 2009 18:45:13 +0000 http://jameystegmaier.com/?p=1112#comment-906 Thanks for the kind words about my blog. I’ve struggled to have a consistent topic, but I don’t think this blog could be about just one thing. So I like what you called it: A consistent frame of reference.

As for your confusion about hostesses and the sex market…well, I don’t know what to say other than I’m impressed by the sheer number of places where you’ve had this confusion. Hostesses are one of the best carrots out there, but the point of the carrot is you never quite catch it.

This makes me think of a really hot hostess who worked at Crab Louie in Chesterfield when I waited tables there for a summer in college. Really, really hot, and, at 17, completely unattainable.

]]> By: Red http://jameystegmaier.com/2009/05/the-carrot-effect/#comment-905 Red Mon, 18 May 2009 17:43:27 +0000 http://jameystegmaier.com/?p=1112#comment-905 My carrot is also the attractive hostess, or what I call the hostess’s hottness (wordplay!). I find myself deciding where to eat based on the hostess’s hot… hotness… heat (maybe?). I’ve been banned from nine restarurnts (three local, six chains) because I thought they were selling sex. Apparently clarifying that thought verbally is known as “solicitation.” Whatever! Olive Garden’s breadsticks are not that good anyway.

With YOUR blog (again, the only one that I read), the carrots are 1) I have a common frame of reference for most of the topics, 2) a good funny to serious ratio, 3) you post with regularity (I hate irregularity, hence why I eat a lot of fiber), 4)I have no problem posting my own random responses, 5) I like ties, and 6) I don’t like carrots.

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